(2) The European Union shall take the following position on proposals for decisions by the
WCIT at its meeting in Dubai between 3rd and 14th December 2012 and any related
preparatory meetings:
(a) Do not support any proposals that conflict with the EU acquis, or introduce obligations on
operators which go beyond those already provided for under the EU acquis;
(b) Support proposals that respect the sovereignty of ITU member states and in particular
recognise those areas that are a national matter such as cybercrime, content, national security
and defence.
(c) Support proposals that seek to ensure that the revised ITRs remain high level, strategic and
technology neutral and oppose proposals to make ITU recommendations binding on ITU
member states and operating agencies;;
(d) Support any proposals to maintain the current scope of the ITRs and the current mandate
of the ITU, oppose any proposals to extend the scope to areas such as the routing of Internetbased
traffic, content-related issues;
(e) Support proposals to respect human rights in relation to international telecommunications,
support proposals to respect privacy and personal data protection in relation to personal data
and communications (subject to 2(a) above)
(f) Support measures to promote greater international cooperation in relation to the security of
networks used for international telecommunications traffic;
(g) Support pro-competitive measures intended to help achieve lower prices, and greater
transparency on prices, for international telecommunications traffic, based on commercial
negotiations in a free and fair marketplace;
(h) Do not support proposals to establish, within the ITU, mechanisms to settle disputes
between operators as such mechanisms are not necessary;;
(i) Support proposals that ensure that maritime communications can be charged in an
economically efficient way.
In order to make (2) (a) above explicit, EU agreement to any final outcome should be
explicitly conditional on the submission of a formal statement by the EU to other participants
regarding the applicability of EU regulatory provisions, as follows:
“In signing the Final Acts of the World Conference on International Telecommunications
(Dubai, 2012), the Delegations of the Member States of the European Union declare that
these States will apply the International Telecommunication Regulations in accordance with
their obligations under the Treaty establishing the European Union.”.